We have enough racial problems in this country...

"But it’s the sweltering guitar solo—so good it still moves people to
tears—that brought the song into the upper echelon of stadium ballads. Purple Rain,
the album and the film, were the magic results of Prince’s limitless
imagination and bridged an invisible aural divide, premised on race,
that, up until that point, only Michael Jackson had truly managed to
transcend. And 'Purple Rain' the song is where it all came together in
majestic fashion."

Only Michael Jackson?! What about Chuck Berry? Fats Domino? Jimi Hendrix? Harry Belafonte? Sly and the Family Stone? Sammy Davis? Bob Marley? Stevie Wonder? In my 70% white high school, I recall Innervisions being played in the cafeteria basically every single day of my senior year.

Look, we have plenty of racial problems, but "an invisible aural divide, premised on race," is not particularly high on the list: white people in America have listened to lots of "black" music.